Delivery Services

Just about anything can be delivered here - a single beer, fast food, a delicious Indian meal. Things can also be picked up from your house to be delivered elsewhere. Not unusual, except for the scale on which it is done.  We stopped to see a laundry services operation, and were amazed at how the clothes are grouped by color for washing and drying, and then somehow separated and returned at the end of a wash. According to Wikipedia, it's mostly clothes from hotels and hospitals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhobi_Ghat




We had clothes washed at a hotel in Burma once, and each item returned with our room number written on its tag with ball point pen. If no tag was available, the number was neatly written on the item itself. Aside from never being able to forget which room we were in when we wear certain socks, it was an effective way to return clothes to their owners. Wonder if that's how they do it?

Laundry service - pick up, mix up with lots of other clothes for
 washing and drying, and returned to the right owner - amazing!

 There's another remarkable delivery service we learned about. Our tour guide says she makes lunch for her husband after he leaves for work. A man comes to pick it up, and delivers it to the nearest train station. A second guy takes it on the train to the station near her husband's office. A third guy picks it up at the station and delivers it to her husband in time for him to have a warm lunch! Then they bring the empty dishes back to her home the same afternoon. With cell phones, it sounds relatively easy to coordinate all of this movement, but imagine how it was before that!

If you're curious, we learned of a movie called Lunchbox that is based on this service. Haven't seen it, but it was recommended.   
For more info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabbawala where I also learned this fun fact: 

On 21 March 2011, Prakash Baly Bachche carried three dabbawalla tiffin crates on his head at one time, which was entered as a Guinness world record.^[16]

Chili peppers and lime/lemon
hang on each delivery bike
and in many doorways to ward
off the bad luck of the evil eye

 

A dabbawalla tiffin crate is a metal 3-part lunch box.

A brewpub near our house offers breakfast - the Breakfast of Normal People amused us.